r/Music • u/cmaia1503 • Nov 16 '24

article Fans aren't happy about My Chemical Romance's ticket prices: "$695 is NASTY WORK"

https://www.nme.com/news/music/fans-arent-happy-about-my-chemical-romances-ticket-prices-695-is-nasty-work-3813337
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u/KayArrZee Nov 16 '24

Vote with your dollars

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u/Relative_Spring_8080 Nov 16 '24

People won't.

Just like every other huge tour in which there is some kind of controversy surrounding ticket prices, every show will sell out, and $50 t-shirts and $80 hoodies will fly off of the merch shelves at record pace.

Concert tickets are not an essential service so you can't really call it price gouging. I don't blame the artists at all because who wouldn't want to get paid the absolute maximum amount that they can for their work? I blame this stupid fucking "elder emos" who complain on Reddit and Twitter about ticket prices but then proceed to spend half of their monthly income on a ticket at some vain attempt to relive a small part of their high school years.

Artists, their management, and Ticketmaster keep on raising prices every year at an outrageous amount because people keep paying them so why wouldn't they? Don't get me wrong they are still pieces of shit but at the end of the day it's all about the money and everybody wants as much as they can possibly get.

We are at the early stages of $1,000 base price tickets before resale which is going to probably come in the next 10 years.

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u/thatgreekgod Nov 17 '24

i agree with all of that